Senior Specialist Sourcing, Raw Materials, Chemicals

Brabant Wallon  ‐ Onsite
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The company

The Harvey Nash Group was founded in the UK in 1988, and now has offices throughout Europe, America and Asia. The Harvey Nash Group is known for the thousands of successful assignments completed throughout the world. From more than 39 offices, and with 5000 staff and associates, we offer a unique range of consulting recruitment specialising in IT recruitment, benefits subcontracting and outsourcing services to our clients. Our departments of and support our customers around the world by placing the senior managers essential to business growth and effective management.
For our lient we're actively looking for a "Senior Specialist Sourcing, Raw Materials, Chemicals"

Job Purpose and Key Responsibilities:
Manages supplier's relations for the production's Chemicals (15 Mios Euros) worldwide
Insure a long term vision on volume requirement per site, supplier capacity and capability, to support a growing business
Support both the production and the research needs, consolidating suppliers and insuring that R&D supplies can be migrated to production

Accountability:
Reduce total cost of Chemicals supplies using all possible levers, and by developing operational excellence
Protect company revenue streams by managing supply security through a risk management process, focusing especially on animal origin materials
Insure that plans to increase revenues will not be constrained by lack of availability of critical supplies
Initiate strategic sourcing initiatives whenever necessary
Build rigorous strategic sourcing plans for key spend categories to support client's growth
Support all raw materials needs for all production sites worldwide
Work with all the Site Procurement Managers to insure deployment of Global Procurement Strategies
Establish, develop and manage suppliers performance by influencing key suppliers executives, setting goals and objectives and aligning both supplier and cleints resources to obtain the desired results
Champion the process so it is understood and accepted by the key customers and stake holders, and is able to communicate to gain approval
Plan and negotiate contracts with suppliers, utilizing legal support and ensure critical issues are incorporated into contract
Understand OE tools and techniques within the function or with suppliers

Complexity:
Must work with production and QA/Regulatory to optimize, adapt specifications and secure sourcing. Technical spend, requiring frequent interactions with R&D, industrialization and production experts Need to conciliate needs of Production and needs of Research, serving two distinct departments but insure long term compatibility

Specialized Knowledge:
Procurement certification and life science/chemistry/biology master level degree. Procurement experience in a complex multi country setting Strategic sourcing (upstream marketing and set-up of long term strategy for category management). Creative, conceptual thinker, capable of identifying novel solutions Fluent in French & English Good project/change management Result oriented, and able to develop and present strong arguments to convince of the need for change.

Start date
ASAP
Duration
6 months
From
Generic Network
Published at
04.10.2011
Project ID:
248051
Contract type
Freelance
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